“ The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active… Jodi Picoult
“ The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit. Jodi Picoult
“ The adhan, the father explained. God is great; there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. he looked up at me and smiled. In Islam, we want the first words a child hears to be a pra… Jodi Picoult
“ That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one Jodi Picoult
“ Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's… Jodi Picoult
“ Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed hi… Jodi Picoult
“ Sometimes, there's this expression on his face, as if he cannot quite believe he got so lucky. I'm not sure what he's seeing when he looks at me, but I want to be that girl. Jodi Picoult
“ Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a… Jodi Picoult
“ She touched him and found that even something as innocent as the lacing of their fingers could raise all the hairs on the back of her neck and make her blood beat faster. Jodi Picoult
“ She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language.Love.Help.Rape.Stop.Then. Jodi Picoult
“ She had smiled her way through the births andhad offered the new mothers the support and the medical care that they needed, but the momentshe’d sent them on their way, cutting that last umbilical cord… Jodi Picoult
“ See, I get a round, hollow spot in my belly knowing I could tell him what's coming, but also knowing it would come out sounding like a warning. Jodi Picoult
“ Recollections are in the eye of the beholder. No two held side by side can ever quite match. Jodi Picoult
“ Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it. Jodi Picoult
“ Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions andfiltered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out.If you hope, get ready for… Jodi Picoult
“ Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth. Jodi Picoult
“ Once, Lacy had been present at the birth of an infant that was missing half its heart. The family had known their child would not live; they chose to carry through with the pregnancy, in the hope that… Jodi Picoult
“ Nurse: You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet.Joe: I'm actually a lawyer.Nurse: My condolences. Jodi Picoult
“ No matter what you do for someone-no matter if you feed him a bottle as a baby or curl up with him at night to keep him warm or give him food so he’s not hungry-make one wrong move at the wrong moment… Jodi Picoult
